Practice - Strategic Approaches to Reading Unseen Passages
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Practice Questions
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Define skimming in your own words.
💡 Hint: Think about the purpose of skimming compared to detailed reading.
What is the primary goal of scanning?
💡 Hint: Consider how you locate a term in a dictionary.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the purpose of skimming?
💡 Hint: Consider what you focus on when you read something fast.
True or False: Scanning is a method used to understand all details in a passage.
💡 Hint: Think about the difference between looking for a needle and examining the haystack.
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Challenge Problems
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Analyze an unseen passage for its main idea, then scan it for key supporting details without reading every sentence.
💡 Hint: Think about the themes presented in the intro and conclusion.
Discuss the implications of close reading versus skimming in scholarly writing.
💡 Hint: Consider how academic expectations might require thoroughness versus speed.
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